Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry, 4Q 2018

The report finds that the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing industry - comprising mainly of foundry, DRAM, flash memory, and IDM sectors - continued to grow year-on-year and sequentially in the third quarter of 2018. Despite the limited space for a price rise in memory ICs, the continued demand for NAND flash, coupled with emerging IC demand from automotive electronics, have bolstered the global semiconductorindustrywhich is estimated to have grown over 10% in 2018 compared to 2017. The industry's shipment value is forecast to have reached USD 12 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, the highest of the year.